Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
" single mums on Universal Credit living on the Stoops Estate in Burnley or the Oldham's Estate in Bolton have no chance whatsoever of being able to properly feed their kids, never mind think about the benefits of education."

Ah yes, the Stoops Estate in Burnley, tell me about it, or rather mon ami, I'll tell you. Mrs S got her first teaching job at Myrtle Bank on the Stoops Estate in 1970, it was a sink estate, it was a **** hole, I worked at Burnley Fire Station, we were regulars on the Stoops Estate, I felt sorry for the decent people who had to live there, and there were plenty amongst the dross, including single mums. Between me and the missus there wasn't much happening on Stoops that we didn't know about. I could have written a book about it, and this was the 60s and 70s, a period when, apart from 4 years when Fred Teeth mistakenly thought he ran the country, it was run by Labour governments and the Trade Unions.

Plus ca change eh ? And now it's all the Tories fault, you really haven't got a clue mon ami.
Given the political will a progressive game changing government in power for 13 years could change all of this round. Sadly, we do not have one.

Putting two Tories on the Stoops Estate is akin to putting King Herod in charge of your first-born son.